World News Tonight (ABC) - 2005-08-30 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] Tonight,
[0:02] [Music]
[0:05] the overwhelming catastrophic damage
[0:08] from Hurricane Katrina. In New Orleans,
[0:11] the city that thought it dodged a
[0:13] bullet, it's now a disaster zone. Water
[0:16] everywhere. Looting has begun. And now
[0:19] they're going to evacuate the shelters.
[0:21] In Mississippi, it looks like a bomb
[0:23] went off. There are fears that hundreds
[0:25] could be dead. So many of them poor. and
[0:29] the survivors desperate and stranded.
[0:31] Hundreds of daring rescues, Coast Guard
[0:33] and National Guard helicopters perform
[0:36] non-stop. Tonight, a special edition of
[0:39] World News Tonight, state of emergency
[0:42] on the Gulf Coast.
[0:45] >> From ABC News, this is World News
[0:49] Tonight.
[0:51] Reporting from ABC News headquarters,
[0:54] Charles Gibson.
[0:54] >> Good evening. Hurricane Katrina seems
[0:57] destined to be the most costly natural
[0:59] disaster in American history. Last
[1:01] night, we began this broadcast saying
[1:03] Katrina was bad. Very bad. Last night,
[1:07] we didn't know the half of it. We are
[1:08] still learning just how bad. This was a
[1:12] common sight. Today, helicopters and
[1:15] rescue teams lifting people one by one,
[1:17] hundreds and hundreds in all from
[1:18] rooftops. Along the Gulf Coast,
[1:21] different cities, different problems. In
[1:24] New Orleans, we have a major American
[1:26] city underwater. New Orleans thought it
[1:29] had been spared the worst. And then two
[1:31] major levies broke and slowly the city
[1:33] filled today with water. Canal Street is
[1:36] now a canal. The city is going to be
[1:39] essentially uninhabitable for many days.
[1:42] In Gulfport, Mississippi, it was sudden
[1:44] by contrast. A 25- foot high wall of
[1:46] water swept a